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Thing Quotes (page 712)

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place. Michael Chabon
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're..."
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. Chuck Palahniuk
Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection if any thing happens to her I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly there might be tears. Joss Whedon
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge? none of that tells us very much. Paul Auster
Charles Darwin quote: "There is grandeur in this view of things."
There is grandeur in this view of things. Charles Darwin
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. Daniel Defoe
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again. L. M. Montgomery
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. Martin Amis
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. John Stuart Mill
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. Louis L'Amour
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Marilyn Monroe quote: "The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. Marilyn Monroe
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of..."
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lao Tzu quote: "Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome..."
Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things. Lao Tzu
Ray Bradbury quote: "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why......."
She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. Ray Bradbury

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